I attended a meetup organized by Product School in New York a few weeks back. The speaker was Aditya Subramaniam, a Product Leader at Ro and he spoke on driving cross-functional consensus at tech companies. I wrote down some of the things I learnt from this brilliant talk. Huge shout-out to Aditya for this presentation and for patiently answering my questions post the talk.Here are my notes: 

For what purpose, then, do I make a man my friend? In order to have someone for whom I may die, whom I may follow into exile, against whose death I may stake my own life, and pay the pledge, too.

… So said Seneca, some two thousand years ago. I’ve been reflecting a lot on friendship lately, in the context of my own life. In the last five years itself, I have gained several friends, gone through a phase where I took some for granted, a phase where others took my friendship for granted, lost a few friends and strengthened ties with few others. As I look back on these experiences and phases of my life, I ask myself what the meaning of true friendship is and how does one form and keep true friendships.

"Yes, there is an app for that" or at least, there will be, hopefully soon... In my last blog post I wrote about the challenges of staying in touch in today’s world. In this post, I share an idea I had to solve some of these problems through technology.